Education for all

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Everyone should have access to a world-class education without going into enormous debt

Everyone has a right to education, whether you are leaving school, changing careers, retraining later in life or looking to gain new skills and knowledge.

But successive Labor and Liberal governments have slashed education funding and treated students as customers and education as a business.

West Australian student debt has spiralled and the increasing cost of living is a barrier to higher education and training for the next generation of students. In in 2005-06, the average student student debt was $10,299. In 2016-2017, the average was $18,371.

No one should have to go into a decade of debt just to get an education.

Under the Greens plan, more than 800,000 people will be attending university for free by 2021 - including over 80,000 from Western Australia alone.

Our plan

Free uni and TAFE
Provide free undergraduate uni and TAFE for all students

More support for students
Raise Youth Allowance, Austudy and Abstudy by $75 a week

Better funding
Boost university funding by 10% per student to improve learning and teaching conditions

Help young people get ahead
Tie the HELP repayment threshold to the median wage for students with an existing HELP debt

Support our staff to help our students
Support university staff by linking funding to increases in the security of their work